New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted to using the pseudonym "Carlos Danger" during his illicit online conversations with women. He's far from the first celeb to try and hide under an assumed name; here's how and why a few of them attempted to avoid detection.

Anthony Weiner

By Samantha GrossmanTuesday, July 23, 2013

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"Carlos Danger"

It seems some people just never learn. Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned in 2011 following a scandal involving lewd photos, has now admitted to exchanging sexts with a 22-year-old woman using the moniker "Carlos Danger." The messages (and the accompanying, very NSFW photos) were first posted on TheDirty.com. After BuzzFeed repeatedly questioned Weiner's mayoral campaign team, he broke the silence. "I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," he said in a statement. "As I have said in the past, these things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress." However, Weiner only admitted to "some" of the latest allegations.